Literature
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Love’s Growth by John Donne
I SCARCE believe my love to be so pureAs I had thought it was,Because it doth endureVicissitude, and season, as…
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Love’s Usury by John Donne
FOR every hour that thou wilt spare me now,I will allow,Usurious god of love, twenty to thee,When with my brown…
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Negative Love by John Donne
I NEVER stoop’d so low, as theyWhich on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey;Seldom to them which soar no higherThan…
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Self-Love by John Donne
HE that cannot choose but love,And strives against it still,Never shall my fancy move,For he loves against his will;Nor he…
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Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star by John Donne
Donne’s metaphysical poem seems like a light-hearted witty joke aimed at women, but there are spiritual metaphors which substantiate Donne’s…
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Song: Sweetest love, I do not go by John Donne
SWEETEST love, I do not go,For weariness of thee,Nor in hope the world can showA fitter love for me;But since…
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The Anniversary by John Donne
ALL kings, and all their favourites,All glory of honours, beauties, wits,The sun it self, which makes time, as they pass,Is…
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The Apparition by John Donne
WHEN by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead,And that thou thinkst thee freeFrom all solicitation from me,Then shall my…
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The Bait by John Donne
COME live with me, and be my love,And we will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and crystal brooks,With silken…
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The Blossom by John Donne
LITTLE think’st thou, poor flower,Whom I’ve watch’d six or seven days,And seen thy birth, and seen what every hourGave to…
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